a drop in the ocean
UK US a drop in the bucketC2 a very small amount compared to the amount needed:
My letter of protest was just a drop in the ocean.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Small amounts of money
- bagatelle
- chickenfeed
- drop
- microcredit
- miserly
- not a red cent idiom
- paltry
- peanut
- pennyworth
- pittance
- pocket money
- princely
- red
- sou
- trifling